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Spiritual reflection to start the day with Fiona Stewart, a writer who runs a Christian arts charity. Show more

Professor Alice Roberts continues her narrative history series about the human body - a time-travelling tour of anatomical knowledge from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age. Show more

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Travel writer Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent explores the landscape and stories of her new home in Welsh Black Mountains, and reflects on the process of an unknown place becoming home. Show more

Millions of people across Great Britain will be heading to the polls on the May 6th in local and national elections - what role will the rural vote play? Show more

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Musician, cook and presenter Andi Oliver, rugby international Joe Marler and the Inheritance Tracks of Deborah Meaden. Show more

Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits. Show more

Pippa Crerar of the Daily Mirror and guests look back at the political week. Show more

A leaked recording galvanises Iran; Turkey, the US and Armenia; St Vincent's volcano; vaccine impatience in Chile; the story of an American boy who survived years in IS territory. Show more

What does (and doesn't) the Direct Debit Guarantee Scheme cover, how will Provident's scheme of arrangement work and how can you be sure the cryptocurrency you're storing is safe? Show more

Andy Zaltzman presents a look back at the week's headlines with Simon Evans, Helen Lewis, Elis James and Ria Lina. Show more

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Chris Mason presents political debate and discussion from BBC Pacific Quay in Glasgow with Jackie Baillie, Murdo Fraser, Christine Jardine MP, Ivan McKee and Lorna Slater. Show more

Would an Independent Scotland be better or worse off? What about the rest of Britain? What’s your verdict on the Downing Street expenses scandal? Are you bothered by it? Show more

Tattooed poet Helen Mort talks to tattooist Lou Hopper about “getting inked”, in which the body is a canvas for tattoos. Why do it? What are the responses of people to tattoos? Show more

HGV truck driver Peggy Charlton’s twice-weekly trips to London lead her husband to suspect she has other interests in her life. Show more

Dawn French on reinvention and changing careers at any age; Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe’s sentence; Women’s Football and the commentary of women's matches. Show more

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Nick Robinson talks to Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Jonathan Reynolds in a personal and political interview. Show more

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India has become the first country to report more than 400,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day.

Clive Anderson and Gemma Cairney are joined by Marianne Faithfull, Stephen Mangan, Kristin Hersh and Alexia and Jaye J for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Show more

The first female President of the European Commission, who has been criticised for the EU’s response to Covid-19 and blamed for a delay in getting people vaccinated. Show more

Rufus Hound hears from the diaries of Dame Jenni Murray describing her years as a teenage rebel in 1960s Barnsley. From 2020. Show more

How learning a new skill is one of the best things you can do to lower stress and improve your brain health, even in later life. Show more

It's 40 years since IRA prisoner Bobby Sands died after 66 days on hunger strike. Peter Taylor chronicles this seismic turning point in the 30-year conflict in Northern Ireland. Show more

With Tumanbay in chaos after the murder of a highly placed individual, Heaven and her slave companion find themselves prisoners in the desert. Show more

Dramatised by Sean Grundy, Warhol captures New York high society from 1976 to 1987. Based on The Andy Warhol Diaries, edited by Pat Hackett. Show more

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Kirsty Wark brings together a group of people whose lives were changed by the discovery of long-neglected Romanian orphanages in 1990. Show more

Wales and Northern Ireland tackle the conundrums in the notoriously tough lateral thinking contest, with Tom Sutcliffe. Show more

In March, the conductor John Wilson was rehearsing Britten’s Turn of the Screw when lockdown happened. Undaunted, the performance became a film, produced under Covid conditions. Show more

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A young woman meets "Brian". But hidden identities are not unique to the online world... Swipe Right aptly concludes with Punchline by Rebecca Watson, author of little scratch. Show more

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